Freaky deaths: 19 bizarre ways that people have kicked the bucket

Killed by a coffin or a pair of pants - the weirdest ways to meet your maker after a hunter suffocates in a rabbit hole

Trapped: Stephen Whinfrey, died after becoming trapped in a rabbit hole (Photo: SWNS)

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Hunter Stephen Whinfrey paid with his life after tracking a rabbit down its burrow on a New Year's Eve hunting trip.

Stephen, 50, tried to spot his prey he got his head stuck in the hole and suffocated.

An inquest heard the former pit worker from Doncaster, South Yorks, had gone out hunting alone with just his dog and his judgement may have been affected by alcohol.

But tragic Stephen is certainly not the first person to have departed this life in extraordinary circumstances. We took a look at some other epic exits

Snake's alive....he's dead!

(Photo: Getty)

Chef Peng Fan from Foshan, Southern China was bitten by a cobra's severed head, which he'd cut off twenty minutes earlier. Fan had put the head aside while using the body to prepare a soup in 2013. Police said the case was "highly unusual".

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